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Sweden wants to curb religious teaching in (private) Christian schools
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| 10/21/07
| AP
Posted on 10/21/2007 9:33:32 AM PDT by wagglebee
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The government of Sweden wants to curb the influence of religious instruction in private Christian schools.
Education Minister Jan Bjorklund told a Swedish newspaper that new rules being drafted by the government would ban religious elements in subjects other than religion, such as biology. He said, "Students must be protected from every form of fundamentalism."
Bjorkland's spokeswoman says, "A student shouldn't be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don't think that's OK."
She said the new rules, which need parliamentary approval, would be introduced in 2009.
TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristian; christianity; education; europe; europeanchristians; moralabsolutes; religion; secularism; sweden
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Mandatory secularism is the religion of the left.
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:33:36 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:35:27 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: metmom
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:35:53 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: tutstar; WKB; alpha-8-25-02; NYer; Coleus; narses; Salvation; Pyro7480; Gamecock; TonyRo76; ...
Christianity under attack ping.
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:37:13 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Of course.
Only fools would believe atheists are content with keeping us from the public square.
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:40:59 AM PDT
by
fetal heart beats by 21st day
(Defending human life is not a federalist issue. It is the business of all of humanity.)
To: wagglebee
Oh, it goes well beyond that. That some student believes that "God made the world" is not the Swedish government's real concern. (Not that any religious believers of any stripe would be in the least inclined to refuse the study of geology on scriptural grounds --- total strawman argument.)
The explicit aim is to prevent all private or religious schools from teaching any religious doctrine as if it were true.
Although the majority of Swedes are still baprized inthe Church of Sweden (Lutheran), God knows there are precious few Swedish Lutherans who "hold their doctrines as true" and thus threaten the serenity of the secular state. I think we can safely infer that their real target is the Muslim community, which they cannot legally repress without also repressing the Christians "equally."
The ultimate irony is that they will bring their hammer down hard on the relative handful of Swedish Pentecostals and maybe --- maybe --- Catholics (if any of them are worth repressing) and the Muslims will ignore any attempts to relativize or secularize Islam, which is typically more zealous in the children of immigrants than it was in their parents.
And by 2010 they'll have the same policy in the UK.
Truly, it's all very depressing, but not at all surprising.
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posted on
10/21/2007 10:00:29 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: wagglebee
“A student shouldn’t be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don’t think that’s OK.”
It makes more sense this way.
“A student shouldn’t be able to pass a natural science test by answering that God created the world. We don’t think at all and that’s OK with us.”
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posted on
10/21/2007 10:02:14 AM PDT
by
samiam1972
(I'm a mommy again!)
To: samiam1972
Your tagline doesn’t make any sense, you were a mommy long before the new baby was born!
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posted on
10/21/2007 10:27:23 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
The more they suppress the truth, the greater the opportunity. God will not be stopped.
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posted on
10/21/2007 10:38:34 AM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: fetal heart beats by 21st day
Not much different from what is happening here in the US. Also, the real danger that we are all subjected to is ignored by our government for politically correct reasons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eqxWIHKZg
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posted on
10/21/2007 10:50:50 AM PDT
by
353FMG
(Government is the opiate of the masses.)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
10/21/2007 1:07:37 PM PDT
by
samiam1972
(I'm a mommy of 4 now!!)
To: samiam1972
What would you do without me? :-)
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posted on
10/21/2007 1:35:54 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
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posted on
10/21/2007 3:57:44 PM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: wagglebee; gscc
Hey, wagglebee, this is your future if you destroy the only thing that stands between Christian freedom and the leftists. (that would be the republican party aka the coalition between fiscal/ traditional conservatives & the religious conservatives)
It’s stunning you can’t see it.
To: I_like_good_things_too
I’m not the Rooty Rooter who is trying to destroy the GOP, that would be YOU.
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posted on
10/21/2007 4:30:55 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
They have problems with Islam. Why attack Christianity? Does this lend new meaning to Stockholm Syndrome?
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posted on
10/21/2007 4:34:37 PM PDT
by
Leapofaith
(I stole this tagline from Radix --- don't tell)
To: wagglebee
They have problems with Islam. Why attack Christianity? Does this lend new meaning to Stockholm Syndrome?
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posted on
10/21/2007 4:34:40 PM PDT
by
Leapofaith
(I stole this tagline from Radix --- don't tell)
To: Leapofaith
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posted on
10/21/2007 4:38:38 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Regardless of the merits, could the tone be any more condescending and arrogant toward religious believers?
To: Unam Sanctam
I think that was their intent.
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posted on
10/21/2007 4:49:31 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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